Will the Pea-Brained cyclist who did this stand up and explain themselves!

srchar wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

srchar wrote:

This is actually a discarded N2O bottle and a makeshift ligature. Really makes my blood boil that the actions of a few selfish idiots make the entire laughing-gas-asphyxi-wanking community look like litterbugs.

I’ll not have you bring down the laughing-gas-asphyxi-wanking community like that. There’s no balloons, so it couldn’t have been us them.

You That lot need to have a good hard look in the mirror. Discarding your their asphyxiwanking paraphernalia so carelessly not only lets you them down, it lets society down too.

I’m more concerned about the lack of balloons – that’s how you freeze your lungs.

hawkinspeter wrote:

srchar wrote:

This is actually a discarded N2O bottle and a makeshift ligature. Really makes my blood boil that the actions of a few selfish idiots make the entire laughing-gas-asphyxi-wanking community look like litterbugs.

I’ll not have you bring down the laughing-gas-asphyxi-wanking community like that. There’s no balloons, so it couldn’t have been us them.

You That lot need to have a good hard look in the mirror. Discarding your their asphyxiwanking paraphernalia so carelessly not only lets you them down, it lets society down too.

srchar wrote:

This is actually a discarded N2O bottle and a makeshift ligature. Really makes my blood boil that the actions of a few selfish idiots make the entire laughing-gas-asphyxi-wanking community look like litterbugs.

I’ll not have you bring down the laughing-gas-asphyxi-wanking community like that. There’s no balloons, so it couldn’t have been us them.

Well this thread certainly

Well this thread certainly proved that there is no such thing as a cycling community!
A fellow cyclist came onto this forum and made a couple of posts  linking to his blog (blatent blog self promotion) of posts about cycling related issues.
What proceded was a tirade of abuse about cyclists not being one single community (clearly) and rants about our behaviour not warrenting close passes which was never even mentioned by the original poster and some vary unconstructive comments about himself and his blog!
I for one am disapointed in my fellow human, that instead of being supportive and suggesting a few tweeks (less obvious blog promotion, no larger community etc) they decide to rip apart the cyclist/forum poster on their new adventure in blogging.

Good luck Dave, I for one enjoyed your posts (though if posting on here in future I would post a better/fuller synopsis with a “full details here” link)

davidw07 wrote:

You will gather that my blog is new, and intends to cover three topics – one being general cycling topics. Being a great fan of road cc, I thought that the  forum would be a good conduit for feedback on  cycling issues  that I felt worthy of comment. What I didn’t anticipate was being vilified.

How to plug your blog on a forum:

– Create one thread.

– Call it “I’ve started a blog”.

– Do not create any more threads about your blog.

– Thank the one or two people who post replies of encouragement.

– Repy to trolls with good humour.

– Watch your thread sink rapidly down the list of Recent Comments, reflecting general lack of interest in your blog.

This is actually a discarded

This is actually a discarded N2O bottle and a makeshift ligature. Really makes my blood boil that the actions of a few selfish idiots make the entire laughing-gas-asphyxi-wanking community look like litterbugs.

alansmurphy wrote:

alansmurphy wrote:

But it is the because of this, this argument here (ergo proctor hoc or whatever it is).

 

The drink drive campaign didn’t mean that I could sit in a pub car park and await a tipsy person heading towards their car and smash their head in…

 

Suggesting people close pass us, don’t respect us etc. due to one persons actions is shifting the blame…

Who said anything about close passes as a result of this? Who mentioned violence?
Driver behaviour was never mentioned, the OP was referring to an encounter they had with a villager the previous day and their attitude to him as a cyclist. We do not know if this villager was a motorist or not. The villager was not endangering the OPs life, just being rude and the OP is suggesting that this sort of behaviour by cyclists could be one reason why.

SingleSpeed wrote:

Struggling to see how he noticed this in the first place, were you scouring the countryside looking for litter in the first place. As a normal rider I’d struggle to notice a black inner tube just happening to lie on the roadside.

Sure as shit nobody in a car is going to notice an inner tube on a country road traveliing 40-60mph that will taint their opinion of cyclists!

 

Me thinks an agenda is to be had (oh yeah blog hits)….I agree with it as it happens, it is much much more common at Mountain Bike trail centres where some entitled dicks seem to think there is a litter patrol for their Butty Wrappers and Inner tubes.

 

I have found all sorts of things at the side of the road. I have a fine collection of lorry tension straps. I guess some people are just more observant than others.